The KDCL-16P is Zhejiang KAIDA's gang-tool lathe on a one-piece 45-degree slant bed. A gang tool table carries up to six tools with no turret, and an A2-5 spindle turns 320 mm at 5,000 rpm on precision linear guides.

Why a gang-tool table on a small-part lathe?

A turret lathe spends 0.2 to 0.5 seconds indexing between tools, and on a short-cycle small part that idle time is a large slice of the total. The KDCL-16P's gang table has every tool ready at once, so the tool change is the slide move itself — the reason a small part comes off with almost no non-cutting time.

• 320 mm swing, 6-inch chuck
• A2-5 spindle, 5,000 rpm, 3.7 kW
• Gang tool table, 250 x 670 mm
• 45° slant bed, linear guides

Against an indexed-turret lathe, the KDCL-16P trades tool capacity for zero index time — the layout a high-volume small-part job keeps winning on.